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HI IT & LORRY
COLUMBIA, UJ. 65211
WJLL Wv J first get that or body into shape. I
See Pages 8B- 9- B.
76th Year No. 190. Good Morning! It's Monday, April 30, 1984 2 Sections 26 Pages 25 Cents
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UPlTelophoto
President and Mrs. Reagan purchase housewares at a market near Xian, China.
Reagan, Chinese staging media events
PEKING ( UPI) President Rea-gan's
visit to China has been stage- manag- ed
with the same precision
that goes into making one of the Hol-lywood
movies in which he used to
star.
From the " free market," manned
by Chinese security agents posing as
peasant vendors, to the allegedly
" spontaneous" but carefully chosen
crowds greeting the Reagans on
their arrival, nothing has been left to
chance
Both sides the Chinese and the
Republican campaign people travel-ing
in Reagan's party have
worked to arrange the poses.
In Xian, where the Reagans had
asked to visit a typical peasant free
market, Chinese officials set up a
market where the " shoppers" and
Trade agreements 10A
" vendors" were all positioned in ad-vance.
Reporters on the scene beforehand
sawjio activity at the " free market"
until the Reagans arrived in their arm-or-
plated black Cadillac limou-sine.
Then the " shopping" suddenly
began as official photographers cap-tured
the moment for Reagan's cam-paign
commercials.
The White House later acknowl-edged
the market was phony.
Spokesman Larry Speakes said the
Chinese had refused to allow the
president to see a real free market
To make matters worse, Reagan
committed a serious faux pas while
buying some souvenirs at the mar
ket The president paid twice the
price for five handmade toys, told
the shopkeeper, " Keep the change,"
and walked away.
Humiliated, the shopkeeper
dashed after Reagan and thrust the
5- yu- an change into his hand Tipping
is not allowed in China and is consid-ered
an insult by many people
Still other events took casts of hun-dreds,
if not thousands, to stage.
A day after arriving in Peking,
Mrs. Reagan said she was im-pressed
with the friendliness of the
Chinese, citing as one example the
crowds lining the streets as the pres-idential
motorcade drove by on their
arrival in Peking
Smaller and younger crowds were
arranged for Mrs Reagan's visit to
the panda cage at Peking zoo
State capital bureau
JEFFERSON CITY - The
chances dimmed Sunday night that
Missouri voters will get to decide
this year if they want a statewide lot
tery to fatten state coffers and, may-be,
fatten some of their own wallets
Extended debate in the Senate on
Sunday prevented Sen Ed Dirck, D-- St
Louis County, from getting a vote
on his measure It carries resolution
of the controversial lottery issue into
the final legislative day The session
ends tonight at midnight
Both the House and Senate have
approved similar versions of the lot-tery
proposal by very narrow mar-gins
And earlier last week after en-countering
opposition, Dirck
dropped his motion to send the mea-sure
to a conference committee to
work out differences between the
House and Senate versions.
On Sunday, Dirck asked the Senate
simply to accept the House version
But extended queshoning by Sen
Dennis Smith, R- Spnngf-ield,
blocked
a Senate vote
Dirck hinted he may use the
state's $ 5 billion operating budget as
pressure today to get a Senate vote.
In addition to sponsoring the lottery
measure, Dirck chairs the Senate
Appropriations Committee and han-dles
the budget in the Senate
Final passage of the budget will be
on the Senate's agenda in the morn-ing
But Dirck told reporters he'd
bring back the lottery issue first
before the budget Thus a filibuster
on the lottery would block action on
the budget unless someone backs
down
In other action Sunday
- The House sent to the governor
a measure to compensate drunken
driving victims from the state's
Crime Victims Compensation fund.
If approved by the governor, up to
$ 10,000 for medical costs and lost
wages could be paid to a drunken
driving traffic victim.
Between 1980 and 1983 more than
3,600 persons were injured in drunk-en
driving accidents, according to
Bob Winslow, deputy director of the
Public Safety Department
" We're talking about victims who
couldn't walk away from an acci-dent,
' Winslow said
The Crime Victims Compensation
Fund, totaling more that $ 500,000, is
financed by a $ 25 fee charged to any
person convicted of criminal of-fenses
y The Senate unanimously passed
and sent back to the House with mi-nor
changes a measure designed to
delay part of the electric rate hike
Union Electric Co wants when its
Callaway County nuclear plant goes
into operation.
The bill would allow the Public
Service Commission to phase m the
company's increase during a period
of several years Union Electric has
requested a 70 percent rate hike
fromttiePSC.
State law has prohibited the com-pany
from charging customers for
the plant until it begins operation.
The increases would affect all mid- Missou- ri
residents except those in
Columbia, Fayette and Fulton where
power is provided by city- owne- d
power plants.
The Senate defeated an amend-ment
from Sen Harriet Woods, D-- St
Louis County, to include on all utility
bills a fee to fund the Public Coun-sel's
office that represents consumer
interests in utikty regulation cases
" The unwillingness of this body to
discuss the issues facing the consum-er
is the reason why so many people
have taken to circulating petitions,"
Woods said after Senate defeat of her
amendment
The Electric Ratepayers Protec-tion
Project already has announced
Curators bill Page 8A
a petition campaign to impose rate
increase restrictions even more se-vere
than those passed by the Sen-ate.
s A House- Sena- te conference
committee approved a $ 165 million
building construction budget that
would fund several projects on the
University's Columbia campus and
conversion of the Farmmgton Men-tal
Health Hospital into a state pris-on
Projects for the Columbia campus
would include completion of
Schweitzer Hall renovation and an
addition to the Ellis Library
The Ellis Library addition would
require the University to raise
through donations $ 2 million of the $ 4
million project The Schweitzer Hall
renovation is the final phase of the
project to rehabilitate the White
Campus buildmg that was aban-doned
after contamination by radio-active
waste
About one- ha- lf of the $ 165 million
building construction funds would
come from revenue bonds, the other
half from the $ 600 million bond issue
approved by Missouri voters two
years ago.
Bond had urged the Legislature to
authorize $ 225 million. But many
state lawmakers argued the state
could not afford the yearly debt pay-ments
Although this year's session has
been described as dull, state law-makers
have left themselves a
heavy agenda for their last day of
the 1984 session.
Besides state government's entire
operating and building construction
budgets, final action still is pending
on major changes in the campaign fi-nance
law, a state lottery and revi-sions
in the controversial Hancock
government spending lid
Ironically, lawmakers also may
consider giving themselves less time
to work on these kind of issues in the .
future.
A House- Senat- e conference com-mittee
is working on a proposed con-stitutional
amendment to shorten the
number of days the Legislature
could meet during special sessions
and in regular sessions during even- number- ed
years.
University
funds hike
close to OK
By Warren Strobel
State capital bureau
JEFFERSON CITY - The Uni-versity
of Missouri is just a couple of
routine Senate votes away from get-ting
its largest funding hike from the
Legislature in more than a decade
On Sunday, the Legislature gave
final approval to a conference com-mittee
budget recommendation that
would provide for the University's
operating budget nearly an 11 per-cent
or $ 18 million increase in
state funds above this year's appro-priation
Under the House- passe- d operating
budget plan, the University's four
campuses would divvy up $ 186 mil-lion
in state money
Rep Chris Kelly, D- Colu-mbia,
credited improved higher lobbying
efforts, including the new Higher
Education Rescue Operation, for the
large increase " The people who rep-resent
higher education stuck to-gether,"
Kelly said
The University's budget is part of
a nearly $ 5 billion operating budget
plan for state government recom-mended
by the House- Senat- e confer-ence
committee and approved by the
House
The conference committee report
is a compromise between versions of
the budget passed by the House and
Senate earlier this year It is sched-uled
for final Senate action today,
the last day of the Legislature's 1984
regular session
Although the higher education
budget package is substantially
more than the Senate's original plan,
it is expected to receive routine Sen-ate
approval
The committee's recommenda-tions
for higher education and public
schools are well above the level of
state aid proposed by Gov Christo-pher
Bond The funding plan is $ 20
million above the governor's propos-al
for higher education and $ 12 mil-lion
above his recommendation for
the Elementary and Secondary Edu-cation
Department
But the increases, if approved by
the Senate today, are not guar-anteed
In the past three years, the
governor has withheld nearly $ 50
million from the Department of
Higher Education because of reve-nue
shortfalls
Since Bond made his recommen-dations
in Janaury, state tax collec-tions
have run higher than pro-jected
Earlier this year, Bond
released several million dollars he
had withheld from state agency bud-gets
Editor's note: This la the second of throe ar-ticles
on the growing problem of child abuse
In Boone County.
By Matt Schwartz
Mlssourian staff writer
A 9- year-
- old Boone County girl was raped
four weeks ago. A 14- year-- old boy was sodo-mized
in February. Last November, a 14- month-
- old
baby was sodomized.
The Boone County Division of Family
Services received 38 reports of sexual abuse
of children in 1983. During the same period,
19 adult rapes were reported to the police.
" To me, that's astounding," says Bob Per--
DC3Dffl?
ry, director of the county juvenile office.
Perry says his office has not broken down
the statistics for 1982, but the number of sex-ual
abuse reports has increased significant-ly.
A total cf 54 reports of either physical or
sexual abuse were referred to the juvenile
office in 1982.
Sharon Levin, a pediatrician at University
Hospital's child health department, says she
and two other physicians probably see four
cases a month.
Levin agrees with experts that, as with
adult rape and physical abuse, the reported
i
1 1
incidents are only a fraction of a larger prob-lem
Perry's office was involved in investigat-ing
the 38 cases of sexual abuse reported in
1983. The investigations have shown the fal-lacy
of one of the myths about sexual abuse.
" A lot of people picture a child who's being
sexually abused as being a teenager, but that
isn't always necessarily true," Perry says.
" We're talking about infants being subjected
to sexual abuse as well as physical abuse."
Another myth about sexual abuse is that it
is a crime committed by lower class de-viants.
" It pretty much crosses all class lines,"
Levin says. " It may have a higher preva-lence
in lower socioeconomic clases, but
whether that's just a reporting aberration,
we don't know."
Levin says people in the upper classes may
have access to private counseling and treat-ment
resources and thus may escape detec-tion
by authorities.
Levin defines sexual abuse as any land of
abuse of a child in a sexual manner, includ-ing
rape, pornography and prostitution. In-cest
is any type of sexual activity between
related persons Levin points out that most
cases of sexual abuse are incestuous.
" Probably three- fourt- hs of the kids that
have been involved in sexual abuse, it's been
with somebody they know, as opposed to a
total stranger,' ' she says.
She says that because incest is one of so- -
i
ciety's strongest taboos, it remains hidden
And since it usually occurs in the home,
there are rarely any witnesses
Many cases are not reported because the
victim has guilt feelings or is afraid it may
break up the family. Sometimes the abuser
even threatens the victim against reporting
it.
When cases of abuse are reported, Levin
says, it is often because the victim cannot
take it any more or because someone has no-ticed
possible behavioral signs of abuse,
such as inappropriate sexual activity for the
child's age or regressive behavior.
Abuse also may be perpetrated by socie--
See SEXUAL, Pafl10A
t

stats i. ioT. mcv. rocrrTY
HI IT & LORRY
COLUMBIA, UJ. 65211
WJLL Wv J first get that or body into shape. I
See Pages 8B- 9- B.
76th Year No. 190. Good Morning! It's Monday, April 30, 1984 2 Sections 26 Pages 25 Cents
Willi IIIMIiMIMH - - " MM IIIHIIIIIMIIinM! IinMnW11MnWIMIlTlMMTTT1WTfT71IWlMriWMMB
UPlTelophoto
President and Mrs. Reagan purchase housewares at a market near Xian, China.
Reagan, Chinese staging media events
PEKING ( UPI) President Rea-gan's
visit to China has been stage- manag- ed
with the same precision
that goes into making one of the Hol-lywood
movies in which he used to
star.
From the " free market," manned
by Chinese security agents posing as
peasant vendors, to the allegedly
" spontaneous" but carefully chosen
crowds greeting the Reagans on
their arrival, nothing has been left to
chance
Both sides the Chinese and the
Republican campaign people travel-ing
in Reagan's party have
worked to arrange the poses.
In Xian, where the Reagans had
asked to visit a typical peasant free
market, Chinese officials set up a
market where the " shoppers" and
Trade agreements 10A
" vendors" were all positioned in ad-vance.
Reporters on the scene beforehand
sawjio activity at the " free market"
until the Reagans arrived in their arm-or-
plated black Cadillac limou-sine.
Then the " shopping" suddenly
began as official photographers cap-tured
the moment for Reagan's cam-paign
commercials.
The White House later acknowl-edged
the market was phony.
Spokesman Larry Speakes said the
Chinese had refused to allow the
president to see a real free market
To make matters worse, Reagan
committed a serious faux pas while
buying some souvenirs at the mar
ket The president paid twice the
price for five handmade toys, told
the shopkeeper, " Keep the change,"
and walked away.
Humiliated, the shopkeeper
dashed after Reagan and thrust the
5- yu- an change into his hand Tipping
is not allowed in China and is consid-ered
an insult by many people
Still other events took casts of hun-dreds,
if not thousands, to stage.
A day after arriving in Peking,
Mrs. Reagan said she was im-pressed
with the friendliness of the
Chinese, citing as one example the
crowds lining the streets as the pres-idential
motorcade drove by on their
arrival in Peking
Smaller and younger crowds were
arranged for Mrs Reagan's visit to
the panda cage at Peking zoo
State capital bureau
JEFFERSON CITY - The
chances dimmed Sunday night that
Missouri voters will get to decide
this year if they want a statewide lot
tery to fatten state coffers and, may-be,
fatten some of their own wallets
Extended debate in the Senate on
Sunday prevented Sen Ed Dirck, D-- St
Louis County, from getting a vote
on his measure It carries resolution
of the controversial lottery issue into
the final legislative day The session
ends tonight at midnight
Both the House and Senate have
approved similar versions of the lot-tery
proposal by very narrow mar-gins
And earlier last week after en-countering
opposition, Dirck
dropped his motion to send the mea-sure
to a conference committee to
work out differences between the
House and Senate versions.
On Sunday, Dirck asked the Senate
simply to accept the House version
But extended queshoning by Sen
Dennis Smith, R- Spnngf-ield,
blocked
a Senate vote
Dirck hinted he may use the
state's $ 5 billion operating budget as
pressure today to get a Senate vote.
In addition to sponsoring the lottery
measure, Dirck chairs the Senate
Appropriations Committee and han-dles
the budget in the Senate
Final passage of the budget will be
on the Senate's agenda in the morn-ing
But Dirck told reporters he'd
bring back the lottery issue first
before the budget Thus a filibuster
on the lottery would block action on
the budget unless someone backs
down
In other action Sunday
- The House sent to the governor
a measure to compensate drunken
driving victims from the state's
Crime Victims Compensation fund.
If approved by the governor, up to
$ 10,000 for medical costs and lost
wages could be paid to a drunken
driving traffic victim.
Between 1980 and 1983 more than
3,600 persons were injured in drunk-en
driving accidents, according to
Bob Winslow, deputy director of the
Public Safety Department
" We're talking about victims who
couldn't walk away from an acci-dent,
' Winslow said
The Crime Victims Compensation
Fund, totaling more that $ 500,000, is
financed by a $ 25 fee charged to any
person convicted of criminal of-fenses
y The Senate unanimously passed
and sent back to the House with mi-nor
changes a measure designed to
delay part of the electric rate hike
Union Electric Co wants when its
Callaway County nuclear plant goes
into operation.
The bill would allow the Public
Service Commission to phase m the
company's increase during a period
of several years Union Electric has
requested a 70 percent rate hike
fromttiePSC.
State law has prohibited the com-pany
from charging customers for
the plant until it begins operation.
The increases would affect all mid- Missou- ri
residents except those in
Columbia, Fayette and Fulton where
power is provided by city- owne- d
power plants.
The Senate defeated an amend-ment
from Sen Harriet Woods, D-- St
Louis County, to include on all utility
bills a fee to fund the Public Coun-sel's
office that represents consumer
interests in utikty regulation cases
" The unwillingness of this body to
discuss the issues facing the consum-er
is the reason why so many people
have taken to circulating petitions,"
Woods said after Senate defeat of her
amendment
The Electric Ratepayers Protec-tion
Project already has announced
Curators bill Page 8A
a petition campaign to impose rate
increase restrictions even more se-vere
than those passed by the Sen-ate.
s A House- Sena- te conference
committee approved a $ 165 million
building construction budget that
would fund several projects on the
University's Columbia campus and
conversion of the Farmmgton Men-tal
Health Hospital into a state pris-on
Projects for the Columbia campus
would include completion of
Schweitzer Hall renovation and an
addition to the Ellis Library
The Ellis Library addition would
require the University to raise
through donations $ 2 million of the $ 4
million project The Schweitzer Hall
renovation is the final phase of the
project to rehabilitate the White
Campus buildmg that was aban-doned
after contamination by radio-active
waste
About one- ha- lf of the $ 165 million
building construction funds would
come from revenue bonds, the other
half from the $ 600 million bond issue
approved by Missouri voters two
years ago.
Bond had urged the Legislature to
authorize $ 225 million. But many
state lawmakers argued the state
could not afford the yearly debt pay-ments
Although this year's session has
been described as dull, state law-makers
have left themselves a
heavy agenda for their last day of
the 1984 session.
Besides state government's entire
operating and building construction
budgets, final action still is pending
on major changes in the campaign fi-nance
law, a state lottery and revi-sions
in the controversial Hancock
government spending lid
Ironically, lawmakers also may
consider giving themselves less time
to work on these kind of issues in the .
future.
A House- Senat- e conference com-mittee
is working on a proposed con-stitutional
amendment to shorten the
number of days the Legislature
could meet during special sessions
and in regular sessions during even- number- ed
years.
University
funds hike
close to OK
By Warren Strobel
State capital bureau
JEFFERSON CITY - The Uni-versity
of Missouri is just a couple of
routine Senate votes away from get-ting
its largest funding hike from the
Legislature in more than a decade
On Sunday, the Legislature gave
final approval to a conference com-mittee
budget recommendation that
would provide for the University's
operating budget nearly an 11 per-cent
or $ 18 million increase in
state funds above this year's appro-priation
Under the House- passe- d operating
budget plan, the University's four
campuses would divvy up $ 186 mil-lion
in state money
Rep Chris Kelly, D- Colu-mbia,
credited improved higher lobbying
efforts, including the new Higher
Education Rescue Operation, for the
large increase " The people who rep-resent
higher education stuck to-gether,"
Kelly said
The University's budget is part of
a nearly $ 5 billion operating budget
plan for state government recom-mended
by the House- Senat- e confer-ence
committee and approved by the
House
The conference committee report
is a compromise between versions of
the budget passed by the House and
Senate earlier this year It is sched-uled
for final Senate action today,
the last day of the Legislature's 1984
regular session
Although the higher education
budget package is substantially
more than the Senate's original plan,
it is expected to receive routine Sen-ate
approval
The committee's recommenda-tions
for higher education and public
schools are well above the level of
state aid proposed by Gov Christo-pher
Bond The funding plan is $ 20
million above the governor's propos-al
for higher education and $ 12 mil-lion
above his recommendation for
the Elementary and Secondary Edu-cation
Department
But the increases, if approved by
the Senate today, are not guar-anteed
In the past three years, the
governor has withheld nearly $ 50
million from the Department of
Higher Education because of reve-nue
shortfalls
Since Bond made his recommen-dations
in Janaury, state tax collec-tions
have run higher than pro-jected
Earlier this year, Bond
released several million dollars he
had withheld from state agency bud-gets
Editor's note: This la the second of throe ar-ticles
on the growing problem of child abuse
In Boone County.
By Matt Schwartz
Mlssourian staff writer
A 9- year-
- old Boone County girl was raped
four weeks ago. A 14- year-- old boy was sodo-mized
in February. Last November, a 14- month-
- old
baby was sodomized.
The Boone County Division of Family
Services received 38 reports of sexual abuse
of children in 1983. During the same period,
19 adult rapes were reported to the police.
" To me, that's astounding," says Bob Per--
DC3Dffl?
ry, director of the county juvenile office.
Perry says his office has not broken down
the statistics for 1982, but the number of sex-ual
abuse reports has increased significant-ly.
A total cf 54 reports of either physical or
sexual abuse were referred to the juvenile
office in 1982.
Sharon Levin, a pediatrician at University
Hospital's child health department, says she
and two other physicians probably see four
cases a month.
Levin agrees with experts that, as with
adult rape and physical abuse, the reported
i
1 1
incidents are only a fraction of a larger prob-lem
Perry's office was involved in investigat-ing
the 38 cases of sexual abuse reported in
1983. The investigations have shown the fal-lacy
of one of the myths about sexual abuse.
" A lot of people picture a child who's being
sexually abused as being a teenager, but that
isn't always necessarily true," Perry says.
" We're talking about infants being subjected
to sexual abuse as well as physical abuse."
Another myth about sexual abuse is that it
is a crime committed by lower class de-viants.
" It pretty much crosses all class lines,"
Levin says. " It may have a higher preva-lence
in lower socioeconomic clases, but
whether that's just a reporting aberration,
we don't know."
Levin says people in the upper classes may
have access to private counseling and treat-ment
resources and thus may escape detec-tion
by authorities.
Levin defines sexual abuse as any land of
abuse of a child in a sexual manner, includ-ing
rape, pornography and prostitution. In-cest
is any type of sexual activity between
related persons Levin points out that most
cases of sexual abuse are incestuous.
" Probably three- fourt- hs of the kids that
have been involved in sexual abuse, it's been
with somebody they know, as opposed to a
total stranger,' ' she says.
She says that because incest is one of so- -
i
ciety's strongest taboos, it remains hidden
And since it usually occurs in the home,
there are rarely any witnesses
Many cases are not reported because the
victim has guilt feelings or is afraid it may
break up the family. Sometimes the abuser
even threatens the victim against reporting
it.
When cases of abuse are reported, Levin
says, it is often because the victim cannot
take it any more or because someone has no-ticed
possible behavioral signs of abuse,
such as inappropriate sexual activity for the
child's age or regressive behavior.
Abuse also may be perpetrated by socie--
See SEXUAL, Pafl10A
t